Ensign (later Litenant Commanr) Gee Henry Gay Jr. (March 8, 1917–October 21, 1994) was a TBD Devastator pilot Uned Stat Navy Torpedo Squadron 8 operatg om the USS Hor (CV-8) the Pacific Theater of Operatns durg World War II. Of the 30 VT-8 aircrew om Hor that...
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- DECIDG WHETHER TO LIVE OR DIE: GEE GAY, MIDWAY SURVIVOR
- BRANDON SKLENAR: GEE 'TEX' GAY
- WWII MIDWAY PILOT GEORGE GAY DIES
- GEE H. GAY, JR.
- KEV DOBSON: ENSIGN GEE GAY
DECIDG WHETHER TO LIVE OR DIE: GEE GAY, MIDWAY SURVIVOR
Midway was an improbable victory, but nothg was more improbable than what happened that day to Ensign Gee H. Gay. * george gay midway *
Ensign Gee Gay (Circled) would be the only survivor of his squadron’s attack on June 4, 1942.
Gee Gay [right] and his radman/gunner, ARM3c Robert K.
BRANDON SKLENAR: GEE 'TEX' GAY
An oral history om Lt. Gee Gay, the sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 durg the Battle of Midway. * george gay midway *
Ensign Gee Gay’s Story. Gay, Jr.
Gay was the pilot of a Devastator torpedo bomber VT-8, and like every sgle man his squadron, he experienced the terror of beg shot down at sea.
Gay sat there bobbg up and down the water, the middle of the Japane fleet, probably thkg his life was over, tryg sperately to hi unr his seat chn. Ensign Gay saw the U. Then-Ensign Gee Gay, U.
WWII MIDWAY PILOT GEORGE GAY DIES
Gay wasn’t actually the squ * george gay midway *
None of Torpedo 8’s 15 Devastators returned, and Gay was the sole survivor of all who took off that morng om Hor.
Naval History and Herage Command, Gay remembers the Battle of Midway and his squadron.
Gee Gay, USNR: Well, as you know Torpedo [Squadron] 8 was anized Norfolk [Virgia] and I thk you know the history of the [aircraft rrier USS] Hor [CV 8] and where we went and what we did. Gay at Pearl Harbor Naval Hospal wh a nurse and a py of the Honolulu Star-Bullet newspaper featurg acunts of the battle.
GEE H. GAY, JR.
Midway (2019) Brandon Sklenar as Gee 'Tex' Gay * george gay midway *
Gay’s book Sole Survivor dit that the date of this photograph is probably June 7, 1942, followg an operatn to repair his jured left hand and a meetg wh Adm. Gay? — “I really have had a good, good life,” said Ts Gay on Sept.
KEV DOBSON: ENSIGN GEE GAY
Gee H. Gay Jr., a pilot who drifted the sea as one of the most important naval battl of World War II unfold around him, is ad at age 77. Gay died Friday of a heart attack at Kenntone Hospal. * george gay midway *
Gay held urt om her fy livg room chair wrapped a goln boa wh a matchg crown wh the number 100 on top. Gay is the widow of Gee Gay, a Navy pilot and rated hero of the Battle of Midway.
Ts Gay grew up outsi Washgton, D.C., a ary fay. “We didn’t feel so much bee we lived on a naval base and everythg was taken re for you there.” After graduatg high school, Gay stayed the D.C.
Gay at Pearl Harbor Naval Hospal, wh a nurse and a py of the Honolulu Star-Bullet newspaper featurg acunts of the battle. Gee Gay, then an ensign, was a pilot assigned to Torpedo Squadron 8, which was tasked wh skg Japane vsels. Unr wherg enemy fire om mache guns and anti-aircraft batteri, Gay ntued to prs his attack on a Japane rrier.
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When Gay went to fire his torpedo for the first time his life, nothg happened. Gay quickly beme a celebry after his rcue. (See edor’s note below)Ts Gay and granddghter Terri French talk to fay members who uldn't e person by vio chat Marietta, Ga., on Sept.